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Parent issue: Improving the scholarly reputation of the RFC Series Specific issue: DOI assignments to all RFC
Size (time): 3-4 months Importance/Urgency: Med/Low
Problem Statement: When documenting authored publications, academic researchers rely on Digital Object Identifiers (http://www.doi.org/) assigned to their publications. In order to encourage the reputation and value of the Series to academic researchers, adding DOIs to all published RFCs is being considered as a possibility
RSE Actions:
- Determine cost and potential value
- Note that as of 17-January-2013, 688 RFCs have been authored by one or more individuals with institute, college, or university as their affiliation (assumed from the author addresses section); this is 10% of the whole of the Series at this time
RSOC Actions:
- none at this time
RFC Production Center & Publisher Actions:
- Assuming that DOIs would only be added to the info pages for each RFC,
- How much programming would be involved to
- add this field to the info pages?
- add a search field for DOI to the search page?
- link to an API (if available) to request the assignment?
Costs/Benefits Financial:
- From EZID - http://n2t.net/ezid
- “An annual subscription for a non-profit organization is $2,500 per year. This entitles the organization to up to 1 million identifiers per year, both DOIs and ARKs. You would have a unique prefix assigned to your organization”
- From CrossRef - http://www.crossref.org
- Annual membership fee: $275, $1 per RFC for all RFC published between 2011 to present and $.15 per document for earlier works (determined from website; confirmation from vendor in progress)
Project schedules:
Reputation: goal is to improve the overall reputation of the series
Estimated completion date: TBD